Darwin is too often misquoted. He never said the “strongest and/or fittest” are the ones to survive, he said the most adaptable. There are worlds of difference between those two different ideas.
Adaptation doesn’t mean going along with harmful environments. Ot means growing and changing ourselves so the environment isn’t harmful. I interpret this to mean doing the inner work so our outer work promotes our natural evolved state of interdependence and symbiosis.
Words have meanings and impacts but and also they can limit our understanding of so many things.
We need to come together more and more, in ways we haven’t before, in ways we never dreamed possible, in ways we were indoctrinated weren’t plausible.
Allowing ourselves to be quiet and still, so we can hear the wisdom within us and outside of us, is a practice and happens in layers.
Being a “leader” or “innovator” means doing what hasn’t been done before, or doing things in ways that haven’t been done before. It can feel lonely, so finding others who are breaking and changing the status quo is vital.
Vulnerability and acceptance and celebration of differences is the only way to get unstuck (individually and collectively).
The saying “expect the unexpected” doesn’t mean trying to plan for every possible and impossible event. Oy means learning to move with the flow and when the unexpected happens to accept it and respond in ways that are for the good of ourselves and our world.
Our elders could hold so much wisdom. However too many are stuck in the harmful indoctrination and seem to want to keep all of us stuck there with them.
We can’t have it all. Not in the material sense. We can’t absolutely have it all in the emotional and psychological sense.
Materialism could be the death of us. Just because we can’t see something or don’t understand it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist/isn’t happening/isn’t there.
The more we open our minds to curiosity and possibility the better.
Humans did not evolve to have to “earn a living” or “prove our worth”. The constructs of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy are destroying us. We don’t have to adhere to them. And dislodging them from our psyches and internal systems is a process and a practice.
We both have far more and far less choice and free will than we think.
Emotional intelligence shouldn’t stop with our human relationships.
The wiser we get, the less we know and understand.
Consciousness is so much more than any of us can comprehend.
Life is weird and twisty and horrifying and utterly awesome and gorgeous all at once. Allowing the beauty to support us while navigating the horror, without bypassing or dismissing, is where our work is at.
This is the first publication of this RLoT.
An aside : I have been listening to The Telepathy Tapes podcast and I highly recommend it. Our interconnections are so much greater than we can even imagine. Our work is in allowing those connections to exist, to be nurtured, and to flourish. This is where this work comes in - finding our ways to relationship without causing (further) harm.
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